When it comes to music, Dhafer Youssef is not one to make distinctions. The singer and oud player is one of the rising stars of world music, cheerfully mixing the Islamic sacred tradition with jazz, ...

I first heard Tunisian singer and oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef’s music on his 2010 release, Abu Nawas Rhapsody. It spurred me to buy an earlier record, Divine Shadows (2006), on which he works with a ...

Tunisian oud master and vocalist Dhafer Youssef has released his tenth studio album, Street of Minarets, out today via Back Beat Edition. Written from the fifty-something Dhafer of today to his ...

Over the last decade the oud, the Middle Eastern lute, has become a beguiling and familiar sound on culturally outward-looking jazz recordings. Tunisian player Anouar Brahem has expanded the ...

Tunisian oud maestro Dhafer Youssef imparts a holistic world music vista, encompassing jazz, rock and spiritual inclinations while retaining the core Arabic modalities on the aurally picturesque Birds ...

At intermission, between the jubilant global melange assembled by oud player Dhafer Youssef and the dreamscape provided by trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell, the Royce Hall lobby was abuzz with talk ...

Paris-resident Tunisian, Dhafer Youssef plays the oud well, but what shines on Abu Nawas Rhapsody are his extraordinary singing & young Armenian virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan's piano. The album, declares ...

Muthspiel is Austria's international jazz guitar hero, whilst Tunisian singer/lutenist Yousseff is the only internationally famous musician from the small fishing town of Tabulbah. Together, on Glow ( ...

The Tunisian-born vocalist/composer/oud player is at his majestic, spine-tingling best on an original set mingling sedate and sensuous Arabic music with razor-sharp contemporary jazz — the “beauty and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Tunisian vocalist and oud player Dhafer Youssef steeps his compositions in the modes and rhythms of the ...

Qanun player Noura Al Marzouqi will join oud virtuosos Saif Al Naqbi and Mubarak Al Dhaheri in a performance that exhibits ...